The Iceberg Lounge aka GeneralZodLives's Phantom Zone

TheBatman said:

That just means its now time to collect the line in 1/4 scale.

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The Joker figure is tempting. I like the sculpt and it comes with a ton of accessories. HT just upped that price into the range where I start to think about what else I'd rather have that costs that much.

Snake Plissken said:

I gotta get this.

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What's the price likely to be on that? It's my father's all-time favourite film, might pick one up as a Christmas/birthday/Father's Day gift for him.

Plastic Bateman said:

What's the price likely to be on that? It's my father's all-time favourite film, might pick one up as a Christmas/birthday/Father's Day gift for him.

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Pre-order prices look to be $150. Very very affordable. They did a Doc too but I wasn't happy with it. This looks more acceptable.

GeneralZodLives said:

That's another film that I can't believe doesn't have licensed figures.

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Yeah no kidding. Kurt and Val would sell extremely well.

Absolutely

Snake Plissken said:

Pre-order prices look to be $150. Very very affordable. They did a Doc too but I wasn't happy with it. This looks more acceptable.

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Damn, that's pretty keen. Think I'll go for it.

Snake Plissken said:

Yeah no kidding. Kurt and Val would sell extremely well.

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GeneralZodLives said:

Absolutely

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I'd be all over a good Doc Holliday figure, one of Kilmer's best performances. Tombstone is a criminally underrated film.

Plastic Bateman said:

I'd be all over a good Doc Holliday figure, one of Kilmer's best performances. Tombstone is a criminally underrated film.

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I agree. I'm going to try to have Kilmer sign a Doc pic when he's in Oklahoma City later this year for Wizard World. I've liked a lot of his roles, but Doc is the one that immediately comes to mind when I think of him.

Speaking of good films, I saw Dunkirk in IMAX earlier today. Maybe it's because I had a personal stake in it (my grandfather was there for the entire thing, and the young protagonist of the "beach" storyline looks and acts just like a young version of him), but I was completely transported by that film. It's a real experience.

I've heard it's fantastic. It's been a long while since I had a great experience at the theater.

GeneralZodLives said:

I've heard it's fantastic. It's been a long while since I had a great experience at the theater.

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Go to a cinema with a good sound setup if you see it. The sound mixing is incredible, and things like the aircraft engine noises, gunfire, etc are appropriately ball-rattlingly loud.

Plastic Bateman said:

Go to a cinema with a good sound setup if you see it. The sound mixing is incredible, and things like the aircraft engine noises, gunfire, etc are appropriately ball-rattlingly loud.

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That is an incredibly accurate description. Probably one of the most intense experiences I've ever had seeing a movie in theaters. Definitely recommend seeing it that way.

Plastic Bateman said:

Damn, that's pretty keen. Think I'll go for it.





I'd be all over a good Doc Holliday figure, one of Kilmer's best performances. Tombstone is a criminally underrated film.

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Without a doubt his best. It's also what got him cast as Batman. I forget if it was a producer or Joel himself that saw him in that and said he'd be good for the role.

Forever isn't an awful movie, and I would definitely buy HT figures from it. Nipples and all.

GeneralZodLives said:

I agree. I'm going to try to have Kilmer sign a Doc pic when he's in Oklahoma City later this year for Wizard World. I've liked a lot of his roles, but Doc is the one that immediately comes to mind when I think of him.

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That's great. Most people would take Top Gun stuff, but Doc was too much of a legendary character in Tombstone. My wife was actually checking his Instagram last night... he's looking so sickly.

Plastic Bateman said:

Speaking of good films, I saw Dunkirk in IMAX earlier today. Maybe it's because I had a personal stake in it (my grandfather was there for the entire thing, and the young protagonist of the "beach" storyline looks and acts just like a young version of him), but I was completely transported by that film. It's a real experience.

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I'm not much of a Nolan fan anymore, but it definitely got my interest when I started seeing trailers for it. I'm not a Hardy fan, but I'll give it a go.

That's pretty awesome that your Grandfather was part of it. My Grandfather served in WWII in the airborne as a paratrooper.

Snake Plissken said:

That's great. Most people would take Top Gun stuff, but Doc was too much of a legendary character in Tombstone. My wife was actually checking his Instagram last night... he's looking so sickly.

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I really hope he doesn't cancel. I was shocked to see the announcement that he planned to attend. He must be doing much better if he's travelling around putting up with a bunch of nerds.

Snake Plissken said:

I'm not much of a Nolan fan anymore, but it definitely got my interest when I started seeing trailers for it. I'm not a Hardy fan, but I'll give it a go.

That's pretty awesome that your Grandfather was part of it. My Grandfather served in WWII in the airborne as a paratrooper.

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It's definitely one of his better films, the realism of the subject matter suits his style better than fantasy. Tom Hardy manages to steal the entire film despite being a pair of eyes in a Spitfire cockpit for the majority of it.

My grandfather became a medic after Dunkirk. He never talked about it much when I was younger and he was still alive, but I got the impression from what he did say that he'd seen enough fighting for one lifetime. Strange to think we're probably in the last generation of people who have had a living connection in their lives to WWII.

Plastic Bateman said:

It's definitely one of his better films, the realism of the subject matter suits his style better than fantasy. Tom Hardy manages to steal the entire film despite being a pair of eyes in a Spitfire cockpit for the majority of it.

My grandfather became a medic after Dunkirk. He never talked about it much when I was younger and he was still alive, but I got the impression from what he did say that he'd seen enough fighting for one lifetime. Strange to think we're probably in the last generation of people who have had a living connection in their lives to WWII.

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Yeah, during that time there wasn't much care in regards to PTSD (Shell shock at the time) treatment so most came back pretty messed up and climbed into the bottle.

I also had an uncle who drove one of the boats onto either Omaha or Utah beach, I forget which. He actually hated Saving Private Ryan since he said it wasn't realistic and next to no guys survived.

Snake Plissken said:

Yeah, during that time there wasn't much care in regards to PTSD (Shell shock at the time) treatment so most came back pretty messed up and climbed into the bottle.

I also had an uncle who drove one of the boats onto either Omaha or Utah beach, I forget which. He actually hated Saving Private Ryan since he said it wasn't realistic and next to no guys survived.

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My grandfather always maintained the most realistic war film of all time was Kelly's Heroes

Now there's a film that needs some high-end figures.

Plastic Bateman said:

My grandfather always maintained the most realistic war film of all time was Kelly's Heroes

Now there's a film that needs some high-end figures.

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I haven't seen that. I'm cliche and only saw the modern hits more or less.

I haven't seen Kelly's Heroes in forever. I'd probably get a lot more out of it watching it now, since I don't think I was old enough to appreciate it.

I think I've seen Platoon more than any other war film.

I haven't seen Platoon in awhile either, but I used to watch it all the time. That's another one I need to revisit.